We were living abroad ,but the disaster was on the main T V news.
Parents were interviewed and I shall never forget one mother , her
little girl was very slow getting ready for school and was late so she had to leave without eating her breakfast that morning.
The poor woman felt so guilty.
But it was something many mothers will have done in an effort to get their children to be responsible .
The National Coal Board had been warned many times about the tips and heavy rain had unsettled the slurry further that Autumn.
The proper and full price of coal was never measured in human lives of miners and their families ,just as with fishermen and the price of fish.
The Nationalisation of the Coal Industry ought to have ended the penny pinching of private ownership, but alas no.
My son did as part of his degree ,the utilisation of waste by - products of the coal industry ,but much later than Aberfan,and in any case the Clean Air act
would probably have scuppered that.
I think the heaps have been landscaped now.
But what a tragedy , it ought never to have happened and was entirely
avoidable.
Viktoria.
